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The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) PD 396/06 Rev.2 (F)
‘Strategy for Developing Plantation Forest: A Conflict Resolution Approach in Indonesia’
There have been many changes in forestry during the last decade in Indonesia. The economic crisis beginning in 1997 has increased huge losses of natural forests. The illegal and excessive harvesting of commodity and precious timber from natural forests continues. As a result of such condition a significant decrease in the availability of many tropical species as a raw material source of wood-based industries in the country. Since traditional commercial timber of tropical forests is decreasing, the industries have to adjust their machinery to process smaller logs for sawn lumber and plywood. Nowadays, natural forests produce smaller diameter logs, less volume per hectare of a given species and timber of lower quality than those harvested in the past. On the other hand, log from plantations have the advantages of greater volumes per hectare of uniform wood, with shorter rotation. Since the late 1980s the government of Indonesia has endorsed the establishment of industrial forest plantation.
The ITTO PD 396/06 ‘Strategy for Developing Plantation Forest: A Conflict Resolution Approach in Indonesia’ is aimed to achieve sustainable management of plantation forest in Indonesia through development of a strategy for collaborative plantation forest management which is emphasizing on a conflict resolution approach.
The major outputs will be:
(1) Documents on the development of a strategy for collaborative plantation forest management in Jambi and South Kalimantan and its implementation;
(2) A practical mechanism of plantation forest establishment through collaborative forest management;
(3) Trained personnel on collaborative plantation forest management and on plantation forest establishment;
(4) Institutional setting that encourages local communities and industrial commercial plantation forest companies to rehabilitate degraded forests and lands through collaborative plantation forest management; and
(5) Collaborative plantation development in the form of local community and company partnership and production sharing.
Target beneficiaries of the project are local communities, industrial commercial plantation forest companies, local and central governments, and wood-based industries.
For first year operation The Project will recruit National Consultants as follows:
FOREST EXTENSION
(To disseminate the strategy of collaborative plantation forest management)
Qualification:
• Doctoral degree in forest extension, or Master degree in forest extension with 4 year experience, or Bachelor degree with 7 years experiences in forest extension;
• Experience in community based forest management.
Responsibilities:
• To conduct socialization of the development of a strategy of collaborative plantation forest management to the communities around the plantation forests in Jambi Province and South Kalimantan Province;
• To carry out rural appraisal of the collaborative plantation forest management at the demonstration sites of collaborative plantation forest management in Jambi Province and South Kalimantan Province;
• To select 10 trainees on establishment of nursery and cutting mass propagation of selected species in Jambi province and South Kalimantan Province;
• To select 50 trainees on planting and silvicultural techniques of selected species in Jambi province and South Kalimantan Province;
• To present the results of rural appraisal of demonstration sites in workshops.
Period of Assignment will be 4 months.
SOCIOLOGIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST
(Carry out a socio-economic survey of the communities surrounding the commercial plantation forest company)
Qualification:
• Doctoral Degree in sociology or anthropology, or Master Degree in sociology or anthropology with 5 years experience, or Bachelor Degree with 7 years experience in sociology or anthropology; experience in community based forest management is preferable
Responsibilities:
• To conduct a socio-economic survey of the communities around the industrial commercial plantation forest in Jambi Province and or in South Kalimantan Province,
• To produce reports and publications on the socio–economics of the communities around the industrial commercial plantation forest in Jambi Province and or in South Kalimantan both in English and Bahasa Indonesia
• To present the survey results in the workshops
• Period of assignment will be 2 months
FOREST PLANNING SPECIALIST
(To carry out survey surrounding the assigned industrial forest plantation companies to select suitable areas for demonstration sites)
Qualification:
• Have background at financial works for at least 4 years, Doctoral degree in forest management or Master degree in forest management with 3 years experiences, or Undergraduate degree with 7 years experiences in forest planning;
• Have experience in community forest planning and management
• Be able to speak and write English; and
• Be familiar with ITTO Auditing system.
Responsibilities
o To conduct surveys and to plan the demonstration site of collaborative plantation forest management in Jambi Province and South Kalimantan Province;
o To prepare a proposal of demonstration site plans;
o To present the proposal of demonstration site plan in workshops;
o To implement the demonstration site plans in the field in Jambi Province and South Kalimantan Province
Period of assignment will be 6 months
Those who are interested must submit their application together with Curriculum Vitae (CV) and brief Technical Proposal via e-mail to: deep_forest82@com or stratcollpd396@yahoo.co.id not later than July 8, 2008. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.
ITTO PD 396/06 Rev.2 (F)
Strategy for Developing Plantation Forest: A Conflict Resolution Approach in Indonesia
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